YUGOSLAVIA AND STALIN’S DIPLOMACY
By John Archer
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A comrade has pointed out a mis-statement in my article ‘More Summits? What Past Summits Produced.’ I wrote of Tito’s forces in 1944 that ‘they earned Stalin’s bitter hostility by refusing to let him give away part of their country to the British imperialists’. This was in connection with Stalin’s agreement that Greece should be wholly a sphere of British influence.
The deal which Tito’s forces frustrated was not that Yugoslavia should be partitioned, but that Western interests and policies should be represented in equal proportions with the Communist Party in the Yugoslav Government.
I am grateful for this correction. The general point however stands, and indeed is strengthened, that the Yugoslav revolution, under the leadership of Tito and the Communist Party, frustrated Stalin’s deal with Churchill and thereby earned his hostility.
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